We desperately need O to succeed because there are no guarantees.

I agree. But now we just need him and Aranda and Ensfinger to get this done.

We had a coach with a stellar winning percentage, 2 SEC championships, a BCS, and an undefeated season that missed getting a BCS only through a diabolical combination of chance and corruption.

So naturally we fired him.

I hope he succeeds so i can stop reading every morning about coach fricking O

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second tier coach like Saban was or Miles was 

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Bruh, if those guys were second tier coaches, what the hell tier was Orgeron? 15th? I mean, he's already been objectively ranked outside the top 50.

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None of the top tier winning power five conference head coaches are coming here. 

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Damn. You don't think very highly of the LSU football program, do you?

I'm not sure how delusional you have to be to think that Orgeron has even a remote chance of success. He's making all the same mistakes he made at Ole Miss. He's hiring based on who he thinks is least threatening. He's got a propaganda department working full time. Recruiting is worse than under Miles. He's making coaching decisions based on public opinion. He's as thin-skinned as ever. It's going to be bad.

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an undefeated season

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wrong. got to win the championship to be undefeated. Miles won bc of Jimbo Fisher and easy pickings in super fertile recruiting ground.

I wholeheartedly agree. LSU couyldn't afford to hire Fisher. With his salary, buyout, and Mile's buyout it would have cost $30 million. Now Fisher isn't leaving Tx A&M, Saban isnt leaving Bama, Meyer isn't leaving OSU, Dabo isn't leaving Clemson, so if Coach O was to be fired then what other top coach with a NC would leave their program to come here? Lets support our Coach, program, and players. Now is the time to get behind this team.

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But I ask again, who the hell else could you get that would be about as close to a guarantee as possible? I'm not sure that guy exists.

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I swear I need to just copy this into a fricking word document and paste it every time this stupid crap gets posted here.

Head Coach Hiring 101

- Get a giant fricking white board and number it from 1-100.

- Start writing down names at #1 of the best coaches alive currently coaching, whether or not they would be legit candidates or not. This is merely to assess who's the best of the best.

- Somewhere between Saban/Belechick and #100 you will run into a guy with a solid pedigree as either a head coach at a major program/smaller program who is looking for a bigger payday or step up into a top 10 program, or an up and comer who is looking for the same, or a high profile coordinator who is looking to make that big step into being a head coach. This step is the one people pretend does not exist and is what they are suggesting when they say that there were no legit candidates beyond the two first candidates on the board so why not Orgeron? That's ludicrous! Between Nick Saban and Ed Orgeron and his career winning percentage below .400% there were a metric shite ton of available coaches who, while not guaranteed successes much higher probabilities of success than hiring a proven loser.

And that's all you can ever ask for out of ANY hire...what's the most likely outcome based on past performance. Not, well...maybe we'll get lucky and he'll do for us what he's never shown he could do before...right???

So the real question is...where do you people think Ed Orgeron should have been on that list we started with? That list of all active football coaches at all levels? Can you honestly say with a straight face you can not name 50+ coaches with far better resumes than Ed Orgeron?

If LSU attempted to replace Les Miles and his program best run who himself had replaced Nick Saban who built our modern program with some random a-hole who had coached Ole Miss to a resounding 10-25 (3-21 in the SEC) LSU fans would have ALL burned the god damned AD's office to the ground. But, since he's from LaRose, a huge percentage now pretend that this move made sense and are now stuck having to square the circle that was this abysmal hire.

If we "desperately" need O to succeed it shows you just how far we have fallen and how much we need a new AD.

We pay our AD a ton of money. His main job at a football school like LSU is to make sure we never "desperately" need someone like Ed O to succeed.

Remember, we were told we were hiring a coach to bring us back to championship-level. Miles' 9 or 10 wins a season wasn't good enough. Now we're "desperate". If that is truly our situation they either failed at their objective or were lying to us. Either way, Alleva needs to be fired and the next guy needs to replace O.

Yes, Aranda might be that guy and yes he would be better.